Contributed by BJR. Posted by aubin on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 at 1:45 PM (EST)

In anticipation of their debut full length Hurry Up and Wait, The Cardinal Sin have released the entirety of their eight-song demo for download.

The demo was recorded in a basement in Saint Paul Minnesota by Jeremy Tappero during the Summer of 2003 and includes "Woke Up In Pain" and "Where We Shine," both of which appeared on the band's debut EP, Oil and Water.

The band will be releasing their upcoming full length on April 25th release via Grey Flight Records. Included on the enhanced portion of the CD will be the music video for "Quarterlife Crisis" shot by Justin Staggs (Lagwagon, Smoke of Fire, Soviettes) as well as live videos and three bonus acoustic tracks recorded by Chris Carr at Black Box Studios in Chicago, IL.

These demos are so fucking good. I've been hosting them (with the band's permission) since I saw them with the 'Arms at Bernie's in Coolumbus.
I prefer this version of "where we shine" to the EP version a lot.

I remember seeing The Cardinal Sin for the first time with The Lawrence Arms at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood, CA when they were selling the demo for $1.00. I brought a couple friends, who were more into "skatepunk" like the Pennywise's and the Strung Out's, and they dug both The Cardinal Sin and The Lawrence Arms sets. Needless to say, they bought the demo and a pillowcase.

i can't believe its been so long since i've seen these guys. they have only played detroit twice, once as direct support for motion city soundtrack's i am the movie cd release show (with fall out boy playing before them no less). the other time was a bar show a few months ago and i ended up missing them for one reason or another. great band, really cool people. worth checking out for sure if you don't know them

that would be awesome. hopefully if they do the same sort of sweep of the midwest that cadillac used to do i'll get to see them in toledo too. i miss the 2 shows in 3 days that i used to get to see caddy in about every other month back a few years ago

make sure they try to get things done further in advance this time, becky tried to get me to book an earlier all ages show the last time they were here but i had a hard time getting a venue 2 weeks out